I'd Like to Tell a Story CD & Live at Festival Too, DVD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The physical copy of 'I'd Like to Tell a Story' came packaged with our 'Live at Festival Too' DVD. Our limited run of 500 copies has now sold out.
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My brother and I took our family holidays in a quiet little campsite in Beeston Regis, a short climb over Beeston Hill away from Sherringham. A church in upper Sherringham has a mermaid carved onto one of its pews, and a bit of Norfolk folklore attached to it. This song tells her story.
lyrics
It was one autumn morning, through misty skies
Dawns chorus calling the sun to rise over
Misty seas, and fallen leaves
While earth stood still, on Beeston's Hill
Church bells were peeling, their rousing call
Beckoning towns folk, one and all
To their holy place, their garden of grace
While earth stood still, on Beeston's Hill and
Entered ungodly a maiden fair
Skin of the moonstone & sea green hair
All her tangled curls filled with crabs and pearls
For she was no creature of this world
The church beadle noticed as in she crept
Eyes filled with thunder, and up he leapt
Raised his voice to shout, will you get y'arn out
This church ain't no place for the likes of a mermaid
Yet un-deterred still, she entered in
Sat at the first pew, repents her sins and with
Closing eyes, there she quietly dies
And raised with god's grace to heaven, and
The mermaid in question can still be found
Carved to the pew where her soul is bound as the
Town folks way, to recall the day
That earth stood still on Beeston's Hill
credits
from I'd Like to Tell a Story,
released January 16, 2015
Philip Pearson - singer, songwriter, guitar, kick drum
Georgia Shackleton - fiddle, vocals
Aaren Bennett - guitar, vocals, banjo, percussion
James Maas - ukulele
Joseph Hartley - Bass
Nic Zuppardi - mandolin
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